Patrik Jandak
Slovak photographer
Patrik Jandak (born 1977) is a Slovak photographer. From 2001 to 2004, he worked as the official photographer to President of Slovakia Rudolf Schuster and from 2004 to 2005 as the photographer of Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic. In April 2005, he moved to Canada. Jandak started as a documentary photographer and published two photography books (Focused on President and Pictures from England). Since he moved to Canada his photography shifted to studio and nude photography.
Early life and education
Jandak was born in Malacky Czechoslovakia, the younger of two brothers, to parents Lydia and Stefan Jandak in 1977 in Malacky. Jandak Studied to be Agricultural Engineer at Secondary Agricultural School in Bernolákovo and University of Agricultural in Nitra. After first year at University he went to England where he purchased his first Camera. During his stay in the United Kingdom, he became a member of Windsor Photographic Society. In 1998, he started to study photography in London.
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